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| | Gentoo support for lvm root is still a pain in the ass, here is a working solution. Assuming you have 2 disks same size to be mirrored. You want a mirrored /boot and a big lvm. Start a normal gentoo installation with this disks layout: fdisk -l /dev/sda Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 31 248976 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 32 242246 1945591987+ fd Linux raid autodetect fdisk -l /dev/sdb Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 31 248976 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev...
| | dustymabe.com
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| | Last time I walked through creating a sparse disk image using dd and cp -sparse=always. OK, we have a disk image. Now what? Normally it would suffice to just set up a loop device and then mount, but this disk image doesn't just contain a filesystem. It has 4 partitions each with their own filesystem. This means in order to mount one of the filesystems we have to take a few extra steps.
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| | My Iomega Home Media Network Drive 2 was never a great NAS. On a regular base I could not find it in the network at all and lately it's just completely gone. Even though it gets an IP address I can hardly even PING it. So I took out the disk, attached it to a...
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| By design, a Raspberry Pi always requires an SD card to boot from. But one can still have its root partition located on an external storage device. Be it for reasons involving speed improvement, or avoid challenging the write endurance of an SD card. The details in the following steps may vary based on the distribution of Linux being used, but the fundamental idea should be similar anyway: Assuming a distribution of Linux is already installed on the SD card, use it to boot a Raspberry Pi up.